Interpolated strings

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:30:31PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> Reminds me of a story from the 1980s. Microsoft's MASM stood for
> "Macro Assembler". Inevitably, Microsoft programmers invented a pile
> of macros that sort of turned asm programming into a pseudo-high-level
> language. This was shipped with every copy of MASM.
> 
> A friend of mine who worked at MS was once given the task of fixing a
> bug in 50K of MASM code written in this macro language. The author of
> it had long since moved on. Every coder assigned to this task failed.
> My friend got it fixed in a couple hours. He was asked by his
> astonished manager how he'd managed to do it:
> 
> "I assembled the code into an object file. Then I disassembled it with
> Zortech's OBJ2ASM, figured out how to fix it, then submitted the
> disassembled code as the new source code."

+1, Classic!


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